Marsha and Saga here, welcome back to the Realignment.

We have as human beings and really as evolved creatures, a built-in tendency to obsess

over that which can be done better.

So almost every ancestor that any of us have had did not have enough food.

And that meant that preserving calories that had already been found was as useful as

finding new ones.

So there is this kind of obsession with figuring out where we are being inefficient and fixing

the process.

It's a very good instinct, but it runs amok.

And so what we have is a world in which various things have combined.

We have an economic system.

We have technology, we have a division of labor in which people can be very specialized

on tiny little fractions of a computer program or a mechanism.

And it has resulted in a runaway process in which we do solve problems left and right.

But what we don't do is recognize that each of those solutions carries a danger of unintended

consequences.

Hey, everybody, we've been having a really good time covering everything for policy,

national security, war on terror.

We spent this month of September really looking at what is clearly the close of one error.

I'm going to keep that in because I said error when I meant to say error, but both actually

work.

So let's make sure that makes it in the final episode, Phil, our producer who you all

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